The application/pdf Media Type
RFC 8118
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(March 2017; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 3778
Was draft-hardy-pdf-mime (individual)
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2017-03-17 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8118 (Informational) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Alexey Melnikov | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Hardy
Request for Comments: 8118 L. Masinter
Obsoletes: 3778 D. Markovic
Category: Informational Adobe Systems Incorporated
ISSN: 2070-1721 D. Johnson
PDF Association
M. Bailey
Global Graphics
March 2017
The application/pdf Media Type
Abstract
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is an ISO standard (ISO
32000-1:2008) defining a final-form document representation language
in use for document exchange, including on the Internet, since 1993.
This document provides an overview of the PDF format and updates the
media type registration of "application/pdf". It obsoletes RFC 3778.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8118.
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Copyright Notice
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. History .........................................................3
3. Fragment Identifiers ............................................3
4. Subset Standards ................................................5
5. PDF Versions ....................................................6
6. PDF Implementations .............................................7
7. Security Considerations .........................................7
8. IANA Considerations .............................................8
9. References ......................................................9
9.1. Normative References .......................................9
9.2. Informative References .....................................9
Appendix A. Changes since RFC 3778 ................................11
Authors' Addresses ................................................12
1. Introduction
This document is intended to provide updated information on the
registration of the MIME Media Type "application/pdf" for documents
in the PDF (Portable Document Format) syntax. It obsoletes
[RFC3778].
PDF was originally envisioned as a way to reliably communicate and
view printed information electronically across a wide variety of
machine configurations, operating systems, and communication
networks.
PDF is used to represent "final form" formatted documents. PDF pages
may include text, images, graphics, and multimedia content such as
video and audio. PDF is also capable of containing auxiliary
structures, including annotations, bookmarks, file attachments,
hyperlinks, logical structures, and metadata. These features are
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useful for navigation and building collections of related documents,
as well as for reviewing and commenting on documents. A rich
JavaScript model has been defined for interacting with PDF documents.
The imaging model for PDF was originally based on the PostScript [PS]
page description language, used to render complex text, images, and
graphics in a device-independent and resolution-independent manner.
PDF supports encryption and digital signatures. The encryption
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